PHP crypt function

Anon

Hi,

I am using for the first time the crypt function of PHP.

Which is the right syntax ?

I feel so stupid to make this question but for me is not so immediate, I have used the following syntax that obviously return the same veriable not crypted:

crypt ($password);

echo "<br>";
echo $password;

Thank you

Anon

Are you on windows or un*x?

Anon

Try this:
$encrypted = crypt($password);
echo "<br>";
echo $encrypted;

Anon

I am under Unix, Solaris Unix .

The command "htpasswd" for the word:

giallo

returns the caracters:

1dH1ad0JXX0JM

while I have tried to type:

crypt ('giallo');

and it returns me:

5./Y/MI/khMY6

Thank you for any help u can give me

Fabio

Anon

Thanks, it works.

Now I have to understand how to obtain the same string of the server (Solaris Unix).

The word 'giallo', using htpasswd assigns '1dH1ad0JXX0JM'
while my crypt function to the same word, returns:

5./Y/MI/khMY6

I suppose that I also have to remove slashes from the crypted password, isn't it ?

Thank you

Fabio

Anon

The crypted strings do not need to be similar in order to contain the same uncrypted string. You can try it out. Generate a username and a password with htpasswd. Then append one line to the userfile with PHP. The line should contain a username, a colon (":"), the crypted password and a newline.

If it doesn't work, crypt() and the web server are using a different algorithm. Web server probably uses DES, while the "system default" on the platform might be MD5. You can force a crypting algorithm for crypt(), see: http://www.php.net/manual/function.crypt.php

-jani